Quotes About Reality

I've grown up with girls that are like Precious. I've grown up with people that are like everyone that I read about in that book. And so years later, when I was given the role, I just felt a huge responsibility to show the reality of that situation and to show that we're not making it up.

My reaction to a lot of the current situation that we're in is based in part on a serious concern that the present administration's course ignores reality.

I have a thing against reality shows. I think they are so fake. I think they are produced before they begin. I think people know where they're going, what they're going to say, what the situation is. These things just don't happen and you know that.

Whatever the situation at hand, that's what I'm dealing with and trying to be true to it in that moment.

Whatever situation you are in, that is what is normal for you.

No matter what you say you might do, you never really know until you're in the moment. Every situation is so different.

I'm an actor; I have an ego that is sometimes disproportionate to the reality of the situation.

I go through the same kind of situations as other people. I have to give that to people, because people have this facade, this mirage, this mirror about me.

When you've been in life-threatening situations, you become aware that life is not for ever.

Life is dramatic and comedic at times. Sometimes in the most dramatic situations, there is comedy. And good comedy comes from a sense of reality.

I try to watch only real things, which basically amounts to C-Span for me. I like real people in real situations. I learn from that.

I had a different perception of what a relationship or love is like. I was all giddy-headed and fairytale about it in my head, but it's so different. There's a lot of restraint that you've got to have, compromising in certain situations - and you've got to have a lot of respect.

I can't deal in ifs or in hypothetical situations. I only deal in absolutes.

There were some situations where I was giving up everything I had for the band and I just expected everybody else to feel the same way. I realized I was just kidding myself.

I tend to play more true-to-life characters in real situations.

When you do reality, you have to be pretty careful. You have to almost monitor yourself to make sure that you don't get yourself in situations that you shouldn't.

I feel like there's already a written narrative going on everywhere. All the different situations and realities you're in, like words floating by. It's something that I didn't start thinking about until recently, but you can hitch that ride, that narrative that's already been created. You just have to read it and write it down.

I'm really interested in real people in extraordinary situations. The detail and reality to that.

'Gimme a Break' ran for six years and gave me the kind of money and freedom that I'd dreamed would make me happy. It didn't.

It's like going into the Senate. You know, the first time you get there, you're all excited, 'My God, how did I ever get here?' Then, about six months later, you say, 'How the hell did the rest of them get here?'

We all have friends and loved ones who say 60's the new 30. No. Sixty's the new 60.

We have been told many times that we have become too big, but these are things that only someone who has no idea of the size of the competition can say. We are too small.

I think a part of me romantically thinks it would be amazing to learn to dance or ice skate, but in reality, I don't think it would be beneficial to my career.

The reality of professional skateboarding contests is that they're not relevant in our world.